University Park, IL ·
OSHA Injury Report: Yoshino America Corporation
Injury · Other recordable case
At a glance
On , an injury at Yoshino America Corporation in 2500 Palmer Avenue, University Park, IL 60484 resulted in other recordable case. Employee was injection Maintenance Technician in bottles, plastics, manufacturing.
Where did this happen?
- Establishment
- Yoshino America Corporation
- Parent company
- Yoshino America Corporation
- Street
- 2500 Palmer Avenue
- City
- University Park
- State
- IL
- ZIP
- 60484
- On-site location
- Injection Department by Husky # 6 machine
What was the outcome?
- Outcome
- Other recordable case (code 4)
- Type
- Injury (code 1)
Before the incident
employee was performing scheduled maintenance on the Husky #[REDACTED] machine hot runner system and working from a three-foot ladder.
What happened
employee was leaning too far from the ladder position. This caused his footing to slip and his body to fall forward into the locked-out machine.
Injury or illness
Employee fell forward into the locked-out machine impacting his upper right rib torso area against the machine body causing bruising to the area.
Object or substance involved
Failure to use the three-step ladder safely and slipping into the machine base.
Summary line
Contusion bruising of ribs front right side slipped off ladder trying to reach out too far from ladder position to machine.
Employee and industry
- Job description
- Injection Maintenance Technician
- SOC code
- 49-9041: Industrial Machinery Mechanics
- NAICS code
- 326160: Bottles, plastics, manufacturing
- NAICS vintage
- 2022
- Employees at this establishment (2023 average)
- 94
- Hours worked at this establishment (2023 total)
- 166,992
- EIN
- 132986989
- Establishment ID
- 641567
- Employer case #
- 1
When (timing detail)
- Date of incident
- Shift started
- 06:45
- Time of incident
- 15:30
- Filing year
- 2023
- Submitted to OSHA
- 2024-02-12
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Source
Data from OSHA ITA Form 300/301 electronic submissions, filing year 2023. ITA Case Detail records are establishment-reported submissions, not OSHA inspections, so no per-record IMIS deep link exists.
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